don't return uninitialized memory from bdiff.blocks() bdiff.blocks() returns a dummy match at the end of both files; the length of that chunk is never set, so it will sometimes contain random heap garbage. There are apparently workarounds for this elsewhere: # bdiff sometimes gives huge matches past eof, this check eats them,

#!/bin/sh

echo 'syntax error' > badext.py
abspath=`pwd`/badext.py

echo '[extensions]' >> $HGRCPATH
echo "badext = $abspath" >> $HGRCPATH

hg -q help help